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Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is a first-person perspective, point-and-click adventure game. The player is Nancy Drew and has to solve a mystery. Explore rich environments for clues, interrogate…

80 1 October 2006

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is an adventure developed by Her Interactive, released 1 October 2006 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is an adventure game developed by Her Interactive and released in 2006. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Say Aloha to Trouble in Paradise! Working as a research assistant in Hawaii sounds like fun in the sun, but ther's big trouble brewing on the Big Island. Someone or something destroyed the environmental experiments in the forest around the Hilihili Research compound. Is it the mythical Kane ‘Okala or unfriendly rivals? It's up to you, as Nancy Drew, with the help of the Hardy Boys, to uncover hidden secrets among the strange whispers that haunt the mountains and forests! Dare to Play!
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Nancy Drew series

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave is the 15th of 42 entries we hold in the Nancy Drew series. The next entry was Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek in 2007. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock at 80.

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How it was received

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU, 128 MB of RAM and 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave launched on 1 October 2006, within three weeks of Company of Heroes, Bully, Pokémon Diamond Version and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Company of Heroes, Bully, Pokémon Diamond Version, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.

Cheats and codes

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Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave — frequently asked questions

When did Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave come out?
Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave was released on 1 October 2006 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave?
At minimum, Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave needs 1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU, 128 MB of RAM, 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card graphics, 1 GB or more of hard drive space of storage.
How many GB is Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1 GB or more of hard drive space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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